Engineering Students Win for 3D Printed Excavator Cab

A student engineering team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has submitted the winning design for an aesthetically pleasing and fully-functional 3D printed excavator cab. The cab will be 3D printed as a functional prototype and the entire excavator will go on display at IFPE and CONEXPO-CON/AGG at the Tech Experience in Las Vegas in March of 2017. Part of the excavator cab challenge was to create an aesthetically pleasing design that was also highly functional. The team from UIUC ended up using a Voronoi Pattern for the cab created with Topology Optimization software. You can read more over on 3DPrint.com: https://3dprint.com/139180/excavator...esign-contest/
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